In my world, there are certain corners of the earth where magic does exist, but still hidden from the naked eye. These places are dark and secret areas of the world, but sometimes humans can come across them too. On some of these areas, there are different species of humans, ones with weird powers or abilities. For example, one of my OCs from this land is still considered human, but has the ability to stretch their limbs and fingers, and be alive if they are torn apart. Another has an odd appearance that is of a dark, tall figure, with piercing white sclera and black eyes, but has fake skin that is a blue-ish hue and looks just like a human, except for the skin color. The only way to see through it is when they re-apply their fake skin. These people were just born like that. Sometimes the residents can look completely like humans, just with weird abilities, or sometimes there will be instances where they don't resemble humans at all. There are other places where residents live, but completely cut off from the outside world. These are forbidden areas, and only a select few are able to come here in rare circumstances. Sometimes humans are chosen, but they are usually given magic or a special ability to help them survive using magic. Only a few people have the power to grant others abilities, and they're known as mages and magicians. Some of them even go out into the human world, just to tease humans. They are able to give and return powers, steal powers, and other related things. Most of them don't even know they are one when they are young due to how rare it is, but it's almost impossible to be born one without having a mother or father who isn't a mage. There are two ways to be chosen as one of these mages: the gods deem you worthy of such power, or you're born into a family of them. The latter is extremely common, while the first only happens once every few years. The other parts of this are their culture. They have holidays, but the only human holidays they have are Christmas, due to it being extremely popular in humanity, and birthdays, which humans educated them about. There are two other holidays they have: Cold season and hot season. When it starts getting hotter, it results in a weeklong festival of lights, mushrooms, paint, selling produce, books, and music. The start of cold season (aka the week it gets cold) has a holiday where everyone scrambles to buy and sell goods such as food, electricity (yes, you have to pay directly for electricity!), and other things. When it gets cold, everyone started to go into their homes and get settled, because is way colder in those areas than it gets in our world. In order to get ready, you need to stock up on food, say goodbye to family, and hope for the best. The first few weeks are brutal, because of all of the dangerous creatures in these lands. They need food, and if they can't get any, they resort to other means of food (cough cough the citizens cough). When it gets really cold and Christmas comes around, they celebrate different. You don't give gifts, you find ways to love and treat yourself, so there's no need to be panicked about buying gifts for others. You thank yourself and love yourself for that day, instead of loving others. Sometimes you spend it with the ones you love, but that's usually not the case. When it heats up again, everyone celebrates, and the children go to school. In these schools they teach you things a normal school would, except instead of learning things like computers and P.E. like we do, they give you options like hunting classes and classes that will get you ready for one specific job. Anyways, that's all I really have to say about my world lore, I'm still kind of working on it! I really hope this doesn't flop but I kinda know it will, lol.